shadowbox

IPA: ʃˈædoʊbɑks

A diorama or shallow display case, usually with a glass front.
A rectangular display area that is set off with a frame or drop shadow.
A box with a light inside used for reading X-ray images.
A shade that surrounds a lit display or screen to make it easier to read in bright environments.

(boxing, martial arts) To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror.
To engage in evasive maneuvers; to avoid addressing something directly.
(figuratively) Argue with an imaginary enemy.
To display in a shadowbox.

shadow box

IPA: ʃˈædoʊbɑks

Alternative form of shadowbox [(boxing, martial arts) To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror.]

IPA: ʃˈædoʊbɑks

Alternative form of shadowbox [A diorama or shallow display case, usually with a glass front.]

Alternative form of shadowbox [(boxing, martial arts) To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror.]

Failing to do this, we are just shadowboxing.
I find this shadowboxing to be quite tedious.
You're shadowboxing like some punch drunk prizefighter.
If you can win with shadowboxing that is better than real boxing.
I stopped in front of the last item on the wall; a sizable shadowbox.
Y'all should see DRV for the really comical shadowboxing he was doing.
I was surprised that the place was half-full, permitting one bouncer the space and lack of supervision to shadowbox.
I'm assuming it's permanently mounted in the "shadowbox," so no one can get stabbed by it...but what an odd thing to memorialize from this film.
I already have a 120 pound lab/st. bernard, but she's a sissy; already have fenced in yard in shadowbox style; already armed with a baseball bat at the backdoor in the mud room; and intend to go to Dundee Mich to Cabelas to get a moultrie camera based upon your suggestion.

And we instantly went into our shadow-box shuffle, bobbing and weaving and feinting and smacking each other with soft, open hands.
In order to assemble Joseph Cornell's Dreams (Exact Change), Catherine Corman plumbed the letters and diaries of the shadow-box genius.
Reframe and restore old photos; create scrapbooks and shadow-box displays using old letters, tickets, newspaper clippings—anything that helps retell your family's story.
The one in the gilded shadow-box frame on the wall is of her parents; the other two atop the Baldwin piano, the one Helen doesn't play, are of her brothers and their brides.
Build what is essentially a reverse shadow-box frame where the board from the board game is the front of the frame and the back of the frame is storage for the pieces and game accessories.
And I'm sure she wondered what in the world I was doing with them but I was making sure John had -- I made a little box for him, shadow-box after he ran for the Senate with different things in it -- and one of the things I put in it was the extra wedding ring.